The Use and Utility of Ultimata in Coercive Diplomacy (eBook)

Tim Sweijs (Autor)

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2023 | 2023
XV, 293 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-21303-8 (ISBN)

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University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Ultimata feature as a core concept in the coercive diplomacy scholarship. Conventional wisdom holds that pursuing an ultimatum strategy is risky. This book shows that the conventional wisdom is wrong on the basis of a new dataset of 87 ultimata issued from 1920-2020. It provides a historical examination of ultimata in Western strategic, political, and legal thought since antiquity until the present, and offers a four-pronged typology that explains their various purposes and effects: 1) the dictate, 2) the conditional war declaration, 3) the bluff, and 4) the brinkmanship ultimatum. The book yields a better understanding of interstate threat behaviour at a time of surging competition. Background materials can be consulted at www.coercivediplomacy.com.

Tim Sweijs is the Director of Research at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies and a Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands' War Studies Research Centre. He advises governments and international organisations and has published on international security, contemporary war, coercion, foresight, and defence planning.

 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.5.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Twenty-first Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict
• Reihe/Serie: Twenty-first Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict
• Zusatzinfo: XV, 293 p. 6 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Coercive Diplomacy • Crisis Management • diplomatic history • Foreign Policy Decision-Making • interstate coercion • interstate crisis • strategic bargaining • strategic studies • Ultimatum
• ISBN-10: 3-031-21303-3 / 3031213033
• ISBN-13: 978-3-031-21303-8 / 9783031213038